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We review the main features of a mathematical framework encompassing some of the salient quantum mechanical and geometrical aspects of Hall systems with finite size and general boundary conditions. Geometrical as well as algebraic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-09-18 J. C. Wallet

This paper is a contribution to the development of a framework, to be used in the context of semiclassical canonical quantum gravity, in which to frame questions about the correspondence between discrete spacetime structures at "quantum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Luca Bombelli , Alejandro Corichi , Oliver Winkler

Quantum groups and non-commutative spaces have been repeatedly utilized in approaches to quantum gravity. They provide a mathematically elegant cut-off, often interpreted as related to the Planck-scale quantum uncertainty in position. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-08-09 Eugenio Bianchi , Carlo Rovelli

We introduce a new approach to evaluating entangled quantum networks using information geometry. Quantum computing is powerful because of the enhanced correlations from quantum entanglement. For example, larger entangled networks can…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-12-27 Warner A. Miller

Over the past five years, there has been significant progress on the problem of quantization of diffeomorphism covariant field theories with {\it local} degrees of freedom. The absence of a background space-time metric in these theories…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Abhay Ashtekar , Jerzy Lewandowski

Recently, it has been shown that a quantum system held in spatial superposition and then eventually recombined does experience decoherence from black hole horizons, at a level increasing linearly with the time the superposition has been…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-29 Max Joseph Fahn , Alessandro Pesci

The quantum geometric tensor, composed of the quantum metric tensor and Berry curvature, fully encodes the parameter space geometry of a physical system. We first provide a formulation of the quantum geometrical tensor in the path integral…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-16 Sergio B. Juárez , Diego Gonzalez , Daniel Gutiérrez-Ruiz , J. David Vergara

We investigate several aspects of the thermodynamic geometry for a quantum fluid with square-well interactions using a third-order perturbation theory framework based on the path-integral-necklace analogy. A comparison is made between the…

A generalized Bloch sphere, in which the states of a quantum entity of arbitrary dimension are geometrically represented, is investigated and further extended, to also incorporate the measurements. This extended representation constitutes a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-12-16 Diederik Aerts , Massimiliano Sassoli de Bianchi

In this paper we present a survey of the use of differential geometric formalisms to describe Quantum Mechanics. We analyze Schr\"odinger framework from this perspective and provide a description of the Weyl-Wigner construction. Finally,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-04-13 J. Clemente-Gallardo , G. Marmo

Quantum geometry is crucial for understanding intricate condensed matter systems, governing transport phenomena and optical responses. However, traditional studies predominantly consider a static crystal lattice, focusing exclusively on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-28 Jiaming Hu , Wenbin Li , Zhichao Guo , Hua Wang , Kai Chang

The quantum geometric tensor (QGT) is a fundamental quantity for characterizing the geometric properties of quantum states and plays an essential role in elucidating various physical phenomena. The traditional QGT, defined only for pure…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-02 Qianyi Wang , Ben Wang , Jun Wang , Lijian Zhang

I review recent works showing that information geometry is a useful framework to characterize quantum coherence and entanglement. Quantum systems exhibit peculiar properties which cannot be justified by classical physics, e.g. quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-10-08 Davide Girolami

Geometrical methods in quantum information are very promising for both providing technical tools and intuition into difficult control or optimization problems. Moreover, they are of fundamental importance in connecting pure geometrical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-21 Daniele Iannotti , Alioscia Hamma

In the first part of this review we introduce the basics theory behind geometric phases and emphasize their importance in quantum theory. The subject is presented in a general way so as to illustrate its wide applicability, but we also…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Vlatko Vedral

Quantum materials are characterized by electromagnetic responses intrinsically linked to the geometry and topology of electronic wavefunctions, encoded in the quantum metric and Berry curvature. Whereas Berry curvature-mediated transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-26 Giacomo Sala , Maria Teresa Mercaldo , Klevis Domi , Stefano Gariglio , Mario Cuoco , Carmine Ortix , Andrea D. Caviglia

The calculation of quantum-geometric properties of Bloch electrons -- Berry curvature, quantum metric, orbital magnetic moment and effective mass -- was implemented in a pseudopotential plane-wave code. The starting point was the first…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-10-29 José Luís Martins , Carlos Loia Reis , Ivo Souza

The Bloch Sphere visualization of the possible states of a single qubit has proved a useful pedagogical and conceptual tool as a one-to-one map between qubit states and points in a 3-D space. However, understanding many important concepts…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-31 Li-Heng Henry Chang , Shea Roccaforte , Ziyu Xu , Paul Cadden-Zimansky

We study the diffusion equation in two-dimensional quantum gravity, and show that the spectral dimension is two despite the fact that the intrinsic Hausdorff dimension of the ensemble of two-dimensional geometries is very different from…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-10-31 J. Ambjorn , K. N. Anagnostopoulos , T. Ichihara , L. Jensen , Y. Watabiki

We demonstrate how one can see quantization of geometry, and quantum algebraic structure in supersymmetric gauge theory.

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-05-16 Taro Kimura